Install apache with mod_rewrite configuration

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This module uses a rule-based rewriting engine (based on a regular-expression parser) to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. It supports an unlimited number of rules and an unlimited number of attached rule conditions for each rule to provide a really flexible and powerful URL manipulation mechanism. The URL manipulations can depend on various tests, for instance server variables, environment variables, HTTP headers, time stamps and even external database lookups in various formats can be used to achieve a really granular URL matching.

Download  the  tarball  source   from  the  apache  website

Now extract the archive using the command:

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tar -xvfz  httpd-2.3.8.tar.gz
Change the directory to the extracted directory

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cd  httpd-2.3.8
Now compile

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./configure --prefix=${PWD} --enable-rewrite=shared
make
make install
After this check the folowing configuration in

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Httpd.conf . if it doesnt exit, please add it :

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^wsdl$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.wsdl [PT]
After this restart apache :

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/etc/init.d/httpd  restart
in debian or ubuntu

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/etc/init.d/apache2  restart